Any experience with boot times Windows 7 x64 with Intel SSD X25-M G2?

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Hello,

I would like to have some insight about the boot times from windows 7 when Postville 80Gb SSD is used.

I have installed Win 7 x64 on the postville G2 and I am a bit surprised with the boot times I get. From Forums and reviews about Postville SSD, I have read that the boot time would be around 20 sec. I get 50-60 sec from the time I push the on button and the time I get an 'up and running cursor'. Is this normal. Below you will find my crystal disk mark data, which I think are in line with I have read from this community.

I run it in IDE mode and there are very few software installed. I have deactivated auto defrag and indexing, windows search service and swap file. I have successfully installed the 02HD firmware version.

Could you please help me on this,

Thanks a lot

Hypra

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I boot my system on about 25 seconds. And you have better crystal mark results than me.

Try switching to AHCI mode instead of IDE in BIOS. Although I think u need to reinstall win7 then to make it work properly.

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I'm not the best qualified one to respond to Kaleido's "Although I think u need to reinstall win7 then to make it work properly" but wanted to try to nip this one in the bud.

You don't have to reinstall Win7 when you flip to AHCI.

I just did it here on a i750 on an Asus P7P55D. First, be sure to change the registry entry Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci to start = 0. Then reboot and in your BIOS change from IDE to AHCI. When you reboot Win7, you'll see it installing the proper drivers and you're good to go...

As I said, I'm no expert, but reading the forum, the above steps are those that are suggested. And they worked for me on in Win7 (x64).

Note, though, that my boot times didn't change significantly when I made this change. I think you've got something else going on that's slowing down your boot. For example, my boot times were slower until I disabled a few boot time functions (eSATA and ExpressGate...)

Message was edited by: tfield98

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The original question was proposed as counting from pushing the power button on your computer. There are many factors that would make times variable, such as entering a password, anti-virus software, AHCI, and all the stuff Windows has to load for you.

I think his 50-60 second time could very well be normal--from pushing power button...

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Boot times vary depending on where you're measuring it from, what things have to load in BIOS, cards installed, etc... Best is to measure it from the point after the BIOS load - It's the screen that pops up with all the IRQ assignments. Your scores seem very in-line with most scores I've seen for the drive.

As for IDE vs. AHCI - I'd switch to AHCI mode. If you google around you'll find a microsoft tech note on how to enable the AHCI driver from within the OS (msahci.sys) using the registry. If you installed IDE then the AHCI driver is automatically disabled in the OS, the only caveat here is if you're using Intel chipset drivers you might need to enable the iaStor.sys and iaStorV.sys drivers instead. You would do it the same way as you would the msahci driver by changing the same registry flag, but for those two.